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There's so many people talking at the developer, strategist, and marketing level, I'm going to take it up for another audience, feel free to repurpose this content any way you want.
You: A web decision maker
As a Web Strategist, you are someone who is partially or wholly responsible for the long-term direction of your website, or the website of your client(s). You have to explain the announcement to your boss (or you are the boss), I'm going to help.
[Using portable applications, companies can now efficiently extend their website experience to existing communities on popular social networks]
Social Network: An existing network or community where people of similar interest share. MySpace, LinkedIn, and Hi5 are examples. Mini-application, app, widget: These applications, created by third party developers or your company can sit on top of these existing thriving communities of connected people. Platform, Container, Social Network: Where the mini-applications 'sit' on top of and interact API: The common code shared among platforms and developers of mini-applications
Situation: Nov 1st the "OpenSocial" is announced
Decisions are made on communities where trusted members share as a result, savvy companies go where their market is.
We've hit a milestone on how the web is becoming amorphous, data is about to be shared easily and quickly in a fluid way. Google and several other social networks in the alliance launched OpenSocial on Nov 1st. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook are not part of the announcement (yet).
Four months ago, Facebook allowed third party companies to build mini-applications in their site, this is similar in concept, but now includes many other players.
'Platform' or 'Container' where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle.
What is Open Social?
Google says: "OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds."
Translation: Social Networks, and other websites (we can call them platforms or containers) can let mini-websites (applications or widgets) to be shared and interact with existing online communities (social networks, social graphs, communities).
Example: A company that sells a variety of blenders from their website can now create a mini-application that can be shared on any of the social networks that have agreed to participate in OpenSocial. The blender-related application will interact with each of these communities, and could benefit from features of users sharing, rating, and reccomending blenders to their friends. The blender application could reach new audiences that will interact with it, extending your reach.
Important Concept: Distributed
Web Marketing no longer is limited to your corporate site. Let go of the concept of 'driving traffic to your website' as a sole measurement of success. The web, it's message, and your battles are now fought on the open and distributed web. Trusted decisions between prospects and customers are made on these social communities and networks, savvy executives need to go there.
Efficient development: Since there's standardization in the code use (APIs) If you develop an application for OpenSocial, it should be easily re-used on all the social networks that are particiating. This greatly reduced development time, you no longer need a 'myspace strategy' or 'bebo strategy'.
Harness existing communities: Since these applications will be plugged into existing communities, the need to 'build an audience' isn't as crucial, as you can leverage the communities where they already exist. Why build if you can easily join.
Open standards help long term: It appear that the standards and development languages are commonly known and not proprietary so it reduced the chance of vendor lock in. Having a common code (API) across all networks makes movement easier, reducing development and re-configuring in the long term. One should always be cautious, as no system is perfect.
Your existing applications become social: Now, your standalone applications can now be shared with communities. If you've already spend resources on creating interactive marketing, large libraries, or other projects, consider how they can be re purposed on these websites, be efficient with your resources.
Future brings social to your website: The trend clearly nods towards the direction I forsee, that social networking features (friends and connections) will be brought to the static corporate website. Soon, there will be customers, prospects and employees networked on your own corporate website. We're not there yet, but start planning on how that will look.
Unproven: We're still at the start of this movement, there's no reason to jump in as the bugs have not been identified nor corrected.
Open data opens risks: It's not fully clear how data will be shared among the multiple platforms. By giving them access to your applications, there is risk in exposing login information, and other sensitive information. The same applies to user data, the risks are not fully known
Inconsistencies may emerge: Just because there is a common set of code (APIs) doesn't mean all of the applications will behave across each of the platforms. There may be inconsistency as no user shares the same set of friends (social graph) on each network.
Cultural differences: Social Networks are adopted and vary by culture. From LinkedIn's business network, to Orkut's Brazilian users no two networks are the same. Expecting an application to work seamlessly for all applications is foolish, expect to research each community before customization.
Future authority not known: Although lead by Google, this alliances appears to be a conglomerate of many different companies involved, it's not clear who the governing body will be, from a single group, a representative, or even Google.
[Although we're at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning]
Next Steps
1) Wait and watch: Unless you're already have successful widgets deployed on Facebook, wait a bit, no need to jump in, let the alpha teams build and break.
2) Host internal discussion: In the meantime, have a brown bag meeting with your development team and web strategy leaders to discuss how existing applications could be repurposed, and how your future roadmaps will consider deploying.
3) Develop Strategy: Understand that this is a new sandbox and if you decide to venture, it should be experimental, and flexibility is needed. Be sure to bake measurement into the start, so you can gauge and benchmark your progress.
4) Educate: Return to this Web Strategy blog, I've started a new tag called OpenSocial where you can filter all posts on this topic, I'll be posting helpful information going forward.
Related Resources
Starting point:The official OpenSocial Webpage Video: OpenSocial hosted an event on the opening night, this hour long video has demos of code and applications What matters: Forrester colleague Charlene Li breaks down what is likely to happen, and why you should care Developers: Ted, CEO of Dogster compares and contrasts the announcement. Thinking Bigger: Six Apart sees the forest, this is development for the whole web, not just Google. Opinions: There are many, many voices on Techmeme if you want more color
I've worked hard to clearly and succinctly explain the announcement, if you're a client of Forrester, and wish to talk more, please schedule and inquiry, I'm at your service to help define your strategy.


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Almost half of new mothers are not made aware of potentially fatal conditions which could kill them or their newborn, a poll suggests.
Forty-seven percent of mothers said they were not told about crucial signs and symptoms within 24 hours of giving birth, according to the Netmums survey.
And only a quarter of mothers recalled receiving information about symptoms that could alert them to danger.
Meanwhile, midwives are "frustrated" at not having enough time to spend with mothers and their newborns after birth, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said.
New mothers need to be aware of a number of symptoms which could mean they are suffering excess bleeding, infections or blood clots, among other possible complications, the RCM said.
They also need to be aware of the signs that could point towards something being wrong with their babies, a spokeswoman added.
The College's poll of 2,000 midwives, 950 student midwives and 100 maternity support workers found that 36% would like to "do more" for women and their babies.
Almost two-thirds of midwives said the time they spend with a new mother is based on a hospital's "organisational pressures" - only 24% said the time spent is determined by the needs of the mother.
The College said midwives must be trusted to make decisions about the appropriate time spent with a new mother and her baby.
These decisions should be based on need rather than organisational or financial constraints, the RCM said.
Meanwhile, the Netmums survey of 500 women found that most did not know what information they should get from midwives.
The RCM advises that, within the first 24 hours after birth, a mother should be informed of potentially life-threatening conditions both to herself and her baby.
A spokeswoman said the majority of maternal deaths in the UK happen after birth so addressing the concerns around post-natal care is of "paramount importance".
As part of its Pressure Points campaign, the RCM is also calling for more midwives to be employed so women can be offered a better standard of post-natal care.
RCM chief executive Cathy Warwick said: "It is clear that our members are taking the strain of an under-funded and under-resourced post-natal service, a service that, without sufficient means, can lead to harmful consequences on the health of mothers and children that the maternity team struggle to care for.
"We fear that financial belt-tightening and the shortage of midwives, particularly in England, means women leaving maternity units too early and being short-changed when it comes to post-natal visits.
"Midwives want to give better post-natal care, but they can't because there aren't enough midwives and they don't have the resources that they need to give women the care that they need and deserve."
Sally Russell, co-founder of parenting site Netmums, said: "Forewarned is forearmed, so it is deeply worrying that almost half of new mums aren't being informed what to watch for.
"Many conditions are easier to treat if women realise sooner they are at risk of becoming unwell, so it is vital this information gets to them early.
"Pressure on budgets may mean not every family is getting the information they need but this is a false economy.
"If a woman becomes ill, it will cost far more to treat her than the price of passing on this vital information.
"The Government must ensure there are enough midwives to ensure every woman gets the right information at the right time."
Labour public health spokeswoman Luciana Berger said: "High-quality post-natal care is vitally important when it comes to ensuring that mums have the information they need to keep a check on their own well-being and give their new baby the best start in life.
"Yet because the Government has failed to give maternity services sufficient priority too many mothers are being badly let down.
"The Government must ensure that new and expectant mums receive the consistent and high-quality care they need and deserve."
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said: "As a doctor and a minister I know how important post-natal support is and I am determined to make sure women get the best care before, during and after birth.
"In order to give pregnant women and new mums better care and support, we have increased the number of midwives by over 1,500 since 2010 and are training over 5,000 more.
"The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has also developed quality standards on post-natal care to improve services for new mums.
"Every woman can now give feedback on their maternity care through the Friends and Family test. This helps hospitals to drive up standards and make sure maternity care is truly focused on what mothers and families want."

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Low-fat dairy products are now in vogue with many people who assume this type of diet to be a health advantage. Many people view milk and other dairy products as a "safety-net" to guard against degenerative diseases, such as osteoporosis. However, there may be better ways to get your calcium than from high-protein, high-fat animal products.
Low-fat and non-fat dairy products have been shown to make a greater contribution to osteoporosis, kidney problems, and certain forms of cancers. (1) In addition, dairy products are the leading culprit in food allergies. And low-fat varieties are actually more allergenic due to higher protein concentration. (2) In addition, it has been stated that dairy products cause a myraid of problems within the small intestines by interfering with intestinal permeability, thereby allowing large fragments of proteins to enter into the blood stream. This is also known as "leaky gut syndrome". This can lead to a host of physical problems, including irritable bowel syndrome, malabsorption of nutrients, obesity and mineral and amino acid deficiencies. (3)
A mother produces breastmilk containing antibodies to infectious agents that a newborn might be exposed to. If a mother breast feeds her newborn, a process known as diathelic immunity takes place, in which the baby receives the necessary antibodies to fight infection. (4) During the first 72-96 hours after childbirth, breastmilk contains colostrum, which carries immunoglobulins that greatly enhance the newborn's immunity against disease. Babies deprived of colostrum have considerably higher rates of viral and bacterial infections. (5) During the first 6 months of life, a baby's small intestine is highly permeable, allowing the maximum absorption of breastmilk and antibodies. During this 'leaky gut' period, the baby is most vulnerable to developing allergies. (6)
An abundance of articles have pinpointed that allergies to dairy products begin in a newborn's small intestine as a result of bottle feeding (either cow's milk or formula). Bottle fed babies suffer more pneumonia, middle-ear infections, respiratory infections, bacterial meningitis, neo-natal septicemia, thrush, and viral illnesses, including polio and herpes simplex. (7)
In fact, the risk of influenza and spinal meningitis for bottle fed babies is as much as sixteen times greater than the risk for breastfed babies. (8) Recent, comprehensive studies involving thousands of bottle fed babies found a direct correlation with the development of immune system disorders, including diabetes, chronic liver disease, ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, spastic bowel disease, food allergies, obesity, coronary heart disease, and multiple sclerosis. (9)
The medical profession and the media encourage the public to drink milk and eat dairy
products because "it does the body good". Nothing could be further from the truth! Higher calcium and protein intake is purported to lower the incidence of osteoporosis,
according to the Dairy Council and those dietitians who refuse to study the medical literature that is not in accordance with the Dairy Industry's Commandments.
Dr. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., professor of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, is the Director of the China-Oxford Cornell Study, the largest study of diet and disease in medical history. His findings: High animal calcium and animal protein intake is the primary cause of degenerative disease. (10)
In February, 1995, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) lodged a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, stating that ads for milk and milk
products are deceptive in that they imply that calcium in milk is the answer to the bone loss caused by osteoporosis. PCRM holds that while calcium intake is important during early childhood and does influence bone mass, there are alternative sources, besides animal products, such as fruits, vegetables and grains to achieve our necessary calcium requirements.
According to the research conducted by PCRM, milk consumption later in life actually contributes to calcium loss. Research has demonstrated that people in countries with a lower animal calcium intake (less than 500 mgs/day) have a significantly lower bone fracture rate when compared to countries with the highest intake of animal products, such as the USA (more than 1,200 mgs/day). (11) PCRM urges women to control calcium loss in adulthood by exercise, reducing meat intake, reducing sodium intake and limiting caffeine and tobacco use. (12) Dr. Neal Bamard, M.D., president of PCRM, states that "dairy ads give women a dangerously false sense of security."
McDougall, J., M.D. Diet For a New America, 1992
Welch, J. Anti-Infective Properties of Breast Milk, J. of Pediatrics, 94:1, 1979
Allergy and Cot Death: With Special Focus on Allergic Sensitivity to Cow's Milk Anaphylaxis, Clin & Exp Allergy, 20:359, 1990
Goldman, A.Host Resistance Factors In Human Milk, J. of Pediatrics 82:1082; 1973
Liebman, B. Baby Formulas: Missing Key Fats? Nutrition Action, October, 1990
Ironside, A. A Survey of Infantile Gastroenteritis, British Med J., 3:20,1907
Robbins, J. May They All Be Fed. Chapter 6, 1992
Erasmus Udo, Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill, 2nd Ed. 1993
Kaplan, S., M.D. Diet for A New America, Chapter 4, 1991
McDougall, J. Ibid
Erasmus, U. Ibid
Barnard, N., M.D., Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Conference, 1995
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Staten Island resident John Dellorusso looks over his backyard, which now contains debris from a nearby restaurant. His Yetman Avenue home, at right, was severely damaged. The homeowner next door and his 13-year-old daughter were killed when their house was flattened.
Staten Island officials had some choice words Thursday to describe what they said was a feeble disaster-relief response to people left dying, homeless and hungry in the New York City borough hit particularly hard by Sandy.
Staten Island's top elected official blasted the American Red Cross response as "an absolute disgrace" and went so far as to urge its residents not to donate to the largely volunteer agency.
"All these people making these big salaries should be out there on the front line, and I am disappointed," a frustrated Borough President James Molinaro said Thursday morning at a press conference with other local officials to talk about the needs of the hard-hit borough. "And my advice to the people of Staten Island is, 'Do not donate to the American Red Cross. Let them get their money elsewhere.'"
A top Red Cross official said he understood Molinaro's frustration.
At a press conference, Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro says "It's an absolute disgrace" that the American Red Cross is "nowhere to be found" during his county's time of intense need in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
"He's advocating for his community in a time of extreme distress and incredible need," said Josh Lockwood, CEO of the American Red Cross Greater New York region.
And a disaster-relief expert said angry outbursts aren't surprising in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
"I think obviously in any sort of disaster context there's always going to be a fair amount of frustration about how quickly things happen," said Keith Tidball, Cornell Cooperative Extension disaster education program director.
Staten Island, the least populated of the five New York City boroughs with about 468,000 people, has been sometimes called "the forgotten borough" or "the neglected borough" by inhabitants who feel they're routinely ignored or shortchanged by city government. At least 19 Sandy-related deaths have been reported on Staten Island as of Thursday -- more than any other borough – and hundreds of homes have been destroyed or damaged. The deaths include two boys who were swept away from their mother during the storm surge and whose bodies were found Thursday morning.
"We have the worst tragedy that's ever happened to Staten Island, and I would say New York City, since 9/11 – and we need help," Molinaro told reporters before singling out the Red Cross for scathing criticism.
"I have not seen the American Red Cross at a shelter. I have not seen them down at the South Shore where people are buried in their own homes, have nothing to eat and nothing to drink," Molinaro fumed. "Yesterday I toured the South Shore with the mayor. The neighbors down there that didn't have electricity managed to put together pots of soup and they were distributed to the people down there whose homes were just destroyed -- and the American Red Cross was nowhere to be found."
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Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
He added: "This is America. This is not a Third World nation. We need food. We need clothing. We need everything you can possibly think of."
Other local officials also criticized the relief response, though not singling out the Red Cross by name.
State Sen. Andrew Lanza lashed out at the city for giving the go-ahead to the New York City Marathon this weekend and for putting a priority on pumping water out of flooded East River tunnels
"We're talking about getting water of the tunnel. Let's get the water out of the tunnel tomorrow, let's get the people out of the water today. There've been thousands of people who have been displaced. There are people who are cold, who are hungry, who are without a place to go, and looking for warmth.," Lanza said, according to Politicker.
"There are people still trapped. Yet we're talking about marathons and tunnels."
Lockwood, the regional Red Cross CEO, was visiting Staten Island Thursday afternoon. Lockwood said he spoke to Molinaro after hearing of his remarks. He said Molinaro was "doing the right thing" by advocating for his community.
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Jane Caravello pauses with her son Vincent Caravello after wading a couple hundred yards from her house on Kissam Avenue on Staten Island. "Half of it is down there and the other half is on Beach Ave."
"We're certainly stretched by this event and we're trying to respond. We're all working 24/7," Lockwood told NBC News. "For the people of Staten Island, I wish we could respond more quickly but we are here now and we're here for the long haul."
Red Cross spokeswoman Anne Marie Borrego in Washington said Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern also called the borough president to let him know that "help was on the way."
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The Red Cross has five emergency response stations set up at New Dorp Lane on Staten Island, she told NBC News.
"We're not going to put our people and supplies in the path of the storm. We have to pre-position our supplies in safe places," Borrego said. "We're in the same boat as all other New Yorkers in getting around with trains and bridges shut down and roads clogged. We're there, we're moving and we're on it."
Tidball, the disaster-relief expert, said it's common for elected officials and others to express frustration at the level of outside help after a large-scale disaster.
"Wherever people feel need to point fingers I would encourage them to reach out their hands and help instead," he said.
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"There are a lot of places around the country and around the world that have experienced large-scale disasters but perhaps weren't able to get things going as quickly or do as good a job in preventing loss of life and key structural functions," Tidball said. "When you think of a city or metropolitan region that's experienced what they've (New York) experienced, it's pretty impressive."
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vs. RH Charlie Haeger (1-1, 1.93), a knuckleballer.
Reds on season-high five-game winning streak, their longest since 6-game winning streak from May 12-18 of 2008.
1B Kevin Barker has been optioned to Louisville as LHP Matt Maloney comes up to start today's game, manager Dusty Baker told us at his pre-game media session.
"It's always a tough decision, but there are a couple of guys with a little more versatility," Baker said.
Baker said Barker will return once Louisville finishes its Triple-A playoffs.
OF Laynce Nix hopes to return in a day or two from a stiff neck. Nix had an MRI on Friday and said he has a bulging disk, and is doing treatments. He said the problem stems from an outfield collision he had with then-Milwaukee teammate Geoff Jenkins a few years ago; after occasional problems since, he finally had it checked out.
OF Jay Bruce (disabled/broken wrist) said he has begun swinging a bat but is not yet cleared to hit.
Bruce also will take the lineup card out again today, as he has done during the Reds' current winning streak.
Francisco Cordero probably not available today after pitching 4 straight days, Baker says; Rhodes/Masset/Burton could close if needed.
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Furcal 6
Pierre 8
MRamirez 7
Kemp 9
Loney 3
Loretta 5
Hudson 4
Ausmus 2
Haeger 1


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One of the most important days in Theo Epstein's short career with the Cubs is fast approaching, and he knows it's a huge day not only for him but for this organization.
June 4 marks the beginning of the 2012 first year player draft, and Theo Epstein is making sure the Cubs are ready, "It's probably the most important thing we are doing right now, to be honest," Epstein said. "So that is what takes up the vast majority of our time. Draft day is the most important day of the year for every organization. It is a year-long process, and right now we are right in the sweet spot — finishing evaluations, going back and getting final looks. We then will get together and dissect all the information."
The new CBA handcuffs teams in how they can spend money on the draft, with penalties as high as 100% on a dollar if a team exceeds the salary cap. "Every team is setting aside some time to think through how the draft may play differently now," Epstein said. "It affects how we approach signability and how we allocate our resources into who we will scout and how often. But it is the same for all 30 clubs. It is a level playing field. We will go and do our best." The Cubs spent $20 million on the draft last year, those days are now long gone and really puts an emphasis on scouting, which Theo and company have focused on.
Who are the Cubs going to take at #6 in the first round? "We have it down to about 10 (players)," Epstein said. "That is just on the first pick. That is an important pick, but every pick in the draft is an important pick if you want to have successful ones. This year there is not a clear –cut, top-tier guy at the very top so it will be interesting to see if there is any late movement up there."
That is great to hear that they really think they could get the best player in the draft given there is no clear-cut #1. Here is a link to Jonathan Mayo's top 100 draft prospects, expect the Cubs to take one of the guys on the 1-10 page, but we will have full breakdowns leading up to the draft.
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Killer classics: Duner's, Rev Soup get new blood
When Ivy's Mr. and Mrs. Smith of the restaurant world, Cathy and Haden Berry, left Duner's to go freelance at Three-Notch'd Grill, their new operation in Crozet, the Dish wondered if Duner's would retain its killer instinct for classic cuisine.
After all, the Ivy assassins had been executing their signature dishes (hearty, yet lean; simple, yet exciting) for willing victims for so long that they were Duner's. Well, the Dish is happy to report that the Ivy hotspot has a new hit man in the kitchen– and he appears to be just as dangerous.
"My goal is to make it the place to eat," says the new chef, 24-year-old Mark Otis, who took over the stove knobs in June and declares, "If you come to Charlottesville, you eat at Duner's."
Otis has the brash confidence you'd expect from a 24-year old, but he also respects his elders. "Cathy and Haden were really good cooks," he says. "I'm refining what they did here, not changing it."
Otis, who got his start as a line cook at the Blue Moon Diner, is a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute. He also did an externship in Italy before returning to work in the kitchen at Palladio, the trattoria-style Italian restaurant in Barboursville.
"We serve food you can't really get in Charlottesville," says Otis of Duner's, "classic stuff like sweetbreads, calves liver, or short ribs, maybe a piece of fish served with a perfect, simple butter sauce. Things that take an element of care, that chefs really need to learn to prepare well, but that have been a around for a hundred years. It's hard to get classic cooking like that in Charlottesville."
Of course, it's teamwork that makes a kitchen work. And even a lone assassin like Otis needs an accomplice. Enter Laura Walke, Duner's sous chef. The 21-year old has been cooking at various places in town since she was 14. In fact, she worked across the street from Otis at the Bluebird Café when he was working at the Blue Moon. "She's dynamite," says Duner's manager Christina Webster.
Naturally, Dish wondered if the Berrys were taking out victims in Crozet the way they did in Ivy. Unfortunately, Dish couldn't reach the couple before press time. Maybe the Three Notch'd is just too busy for them to answer the phone!
Soup d'etat
Closer to home, Dish has learned that Revolutionary Soup on the Downtown Mall has traded ladles. The bloodless coup (or should it be brothless?) was orchestrated in late October by new owners Will Richey and Josh Zanoff and previous owner Alison Campbell.
Richey says he and Zanoff had wanted to buy a restaurant in town for a long time. Over the summer, they came close to closing on one, but that deal fell through at the last minute. Though they come from gourmet backgrounds (Richey is the former wine guy at E'toile, and Zanoff is a graduate of the New England Culinary Institute), when the opportunity to buy Rev Soup came up, they jumped at it.
"It wasn't what we had been looking for," says Richey, "but we saw that the place had a lot of potential."
Richey and Zanoff plan to do a lot more retail, as the racks of gourmet chips that replaced the lower-level seating attest, but don't worry– they also want to keep offering tasty, affordable soup and sandwiches.
There's a changing of the guard at Duner's (above) and Three Notch'd.


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The alleged rape victim of Nicki Minaj's brother Jelani Maraj gave graphic testimony in court today...
From Page Six
The abuse began in April 2015, when she was just 11 and living with her mother and step-dad Maraj on Long Island, the girl said. He started by rubbing his erection on her, but things escalated when the young girl innocently went to his room to greet him one morning that month, she said.
"It was a Saturday morning," she said. "I had went to him to go say 'good morning.' I had hugged him as usual. I went to go lie next to him as I usually do. When I did that, he told me to go close the door. He told me to take off my pants. Then he told me to come under the covers with him and he started caressing me."
Maraj then had sex with the preteen and ejaculated in her mouth, she said. He then allegedly began frequently raping the little girl after school.
"We would have sex in his bedroom, in my bedroom, in the basement," she said.
Maraj tried to make her think the attacks were her fault, telling the young victim she was sending him signals, she told the court.
"He had mentioned I was brushing myself on him and that I wanted it to happen," she said.
Maraj started sodomizing her over the summer, she said.
"He used lubricant and told me to breathe properly and not to clench so it wouldn't hurt so much," she said. "It hurt. I told him to stop and tried to push him away."


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US dancer Isaac Spencer earned his BFA from the Julliard School in 2004. He joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (2004-2006) and then Cullberg Ballet (Sweden) 2006-2013. During leaves of absence, Isaac created and performed in projects with Rumpus Room and Rachel Tess Dance in Portland, Oregon. Isaac is a close collaborator with Sebastian Matthias (Hamburg/ Berlin) and created and performed in Tremor (2010), Wallen (2012) and Danserye (2013).
Isaac was the recipient of the Princess Grace Award in 2003 and received a working grant from Konstnärsnämnden in 2011.
Isaac has been a mentor and teacher at Balettakademien and The Swedish National Ballet School in Stockholm and continues to teach and lead workshops throughout Scandinavia, Germany and the United States.
Isaac Spencer joined GöteborgsOperans Danskompani in 2013.


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Players vs Mods, just a fun forum game
The ultimate battle between players and mods, who rules this forum?
RULES UPDATED : Mods can subract 3 points instead of 4 for balance reasons!
The game is really easy, this are the rules:
- The game starts with 0 points (doh)
- Players add 1 point each time they post
- Mods subract 3 points each time they post
- You can not make consecutive posts and have to wait atleast 10 minutes between posts
- Simply saying 'gief points' doesn't work, you have to say the updated value to make the post count!
- Equal value doesn't count, so if 2 people say the same number the 2nd post doesnt count
That means posts will look like this:
- RandomPlayer: 1
- RandomPlayer: 2
- RandomPlayer: 2
- RandomPlayer: 3
- ForumMod: 0
- RandomPlayer: 1
etc etc etc, you should have gotten the points by now
- Players: Reach 50 points
- Mods: Reach -50 points
Once you reach 50 or -50 points the game starts at 0 again and the side that won gain a point on the scoreboard!
Players wins: 18
Mod wins: 15
Edited scoreboard and removed useless edits. /Dalliah


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NEW YORK - Carbs activate brain regions that are not affected by artificial sweeteners, even when they're only tasted but not swallowed, according to a small new study from New Zealand.
"The mouth is a more capable sensory organ than we currently appreciate, able to distinguish carbohydrates from artificial sweeteners when both taste identical," said Dr. Nicholas Gant from the Sport and Exercise Science department at the University of Auckland's Centre for Brain Research.
"Carbohydrates are extremely powerful stimuli that have profound and immediate effects on the brain and the systems it controls," said Gant, the study's senior author, in an email.
A sixth sense in the mouth for carbohydrates could explain why athletes respond immediately to carbs, as well as some aspects of uncontrolled eating disorders, Gant's team writes in the journal Appetite. It could also open avenues for food engineering Gant told Reuters Health.
Scientists already knew that carbohydrate mouth rinses increased activity in certain brain regions, and some studies have shown that swishing a carbohydrate solution in the mouth and spitting it out improves performance during strenuous exercise.
Gant and his team used special brain imaging, called functional MRI, to look at the effects of three different mouth rinses used before a simple exercise task performed by 10 study subjects.
They compared a sweet carbohydrate solution to a sweet solution that didn't contain carbs and a third solution that was not sweet and did not contain carbs.
When the participants swished the sweet carbohydrate solution in their mouths, there was greater activation in brain regions associated with sensation and muscle performance than with either the sweet solution without carbs or the tasteless solution without carbs.
The sweet carbohydrate solution also produced greater activation in brain regions that control vision and in regions associated with reward.
The fact that the other solutions didn't have the same effect indicates that we are able to detect carbohydrates in the mouth as a separate sense from sweetness, according to the researchers.
"This 'sixth taste sense' for carbohydrate is likely one of many additional food qualities that are detectable by receptors in the mouth," Gant said. "It's becoming evident that the brain knows far more about the foods we ingest that just our perception of taste."
"Both test solutions used in our study were sweetened artificially, so the increased activation we observe is likely part of the 'kick' people complain is absent in diet beverages/products," Dr. Gant said. "We may be able to use our experimental platform to help develop functional foods and artificial sweeteners that are almost as hedonistically rewarding as the real thing (sugar)."
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Whether carbohydrate mouth rinses can make better athletes remains to be seen. "For endurance exercise these findings should be applied cautiously," Gant said. The signals from the mouth send a message to the brain and body that energy is coming, indicating "help is on the way," which may allow a depleted body to keep going, he said.
"But if nutrients aren't swallowed, and don't arrive in the bloodstream," Gant said, "the brain may be writing checks that the body can't cash later in the race!"


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Enlightenment Basics
Enlightenment consists of a core package, a set of libraries upon which it is dependent and add-on packages known as "epplets", which are not required to get E (Enlightenment) running. You can grab the core package and the libraries it requires from the primary E web site at http://www.enlightenment.org/. At a minimum, you'll need the packages listed in Table 1 in order to run on a Red Hat 5.2 system. Red Hat 6.0 or later, SuSE 6.2 and later and the current Debian distributions already have E available. If you install everything, you'll have E ready to run. If not, you will need to determine which package includes E. Usually this is the same category in which you find GNOME or KDE when choosing packages to install.
The graphics libraries you'll want are TIFF, GIF, PNG and JPEG, but most of these have been installed with Linux distributions for a couple of years, so chances are you already have them. Like the other libraries upon which E is dependent, you can find the source distributions for the graphics libraries on the E web site.
The first thing you want to do is make sure the graphics libraries are present. The quick way to check for them is to type ldconfig -p. This command will print all libraries initially installed on your system. If you add more libraries in other directories (as we'll be doing in a moment) and have configured them in /etc/ld.so.conf, it will show those as well.
ldconfig -p | grep -i gif ldconfig -p | grep -i jpeg ldconfig -p | grep -i tiff ldconfig -p | grep -i png
If any of these commands simply return without printing anything, you're missing the associated library. The grep command will allow only the output from ldconfig which contains the string that follows it (-i means ignore case). If you're missing a graphics library, get it from the web site and install it. Since most people will already have these, we're going to skip their installation.
Next, you want to install imlib. This library handles the display of graphic images (backgrounds, borders, etc.). It scales images appropriately, such as when you make a window wider. Imlib is not installed on most older distributions of Linux, and some newer versions may not install it by default, so we'll look at the installation of this library directory from its source.
Grab the library source from the E web site and unpack it into a local directory. In this directory, run the configure script as follows:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/imlib
This will prepare the package for compiling. The "--prefix" option tells configure that, after compilation, installation will be into a directory called /usr/local/imlib. Management of packages like imlib, that are built from source rather than an RPM, is easier if you install them in their own directories.
After running the configure command, you're ready to build the software by typing make. This will run for a time and should complete without error; however, you may see some warnings go by. On my system, I don't have the GIF library installed, so I get a message stating "Native GIF support will not be built." This isn't a big problem unless you plan on using GIF images in your personal themes or as background images. The themes provided in the E core distribution all use PNG, so at a minimum you'll need the PNG library installed.
You might also run into a warning about GTK not being found and one that reads "gdk_imlib will not be built". This shouldn't happen to you unless, like me, you have GTK installed in its own directory. Most readers will have installed GTK during installation of the operating system. If you do get this error, either you may need to upgrade your GTK package or you need not have it installed in a standard location. In either case, you don't have to have gdk_imlib in order to use the imlib library with E.
After the source code build completes, you're ready to install it. Since we specified a directory in /usr/local, we'll need to be root to install the software there. You can either log out and log back in as root, or just run the su command to change to the root user. The latter is easier to do, but you will need the root password. As root, type
make install
Now, edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and append the following line to it:
/usr/local/imlib/libThen run ldconfig. This will tell the system new libraries are installed under /usr/local/imlib/lib and to check for libraries there when running programs or compiling them. We'll be doing this step again for the other libraries, so be sure you remember it. If you used su to change to the root user, type exit to return to your normal user name. Remember: you should never work as the root user except to manage system files. You can compile these packages without being root, and you should—it's safer that way.
Now you're ready to install the font libraries, fnlib and freetype. Fnlib, a collection of fonts that E uses, has some dependencies on imlib, so that's why imlib had to be installed first. Freetype is the library which gives E internal support for TrueType fonts. In this way, E can use TrueType fonts even if your X server doesn't support them.
Unpack fnlib and the FreeType library into their own separate directories. In the fnlib directory, run this command:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/fnlib \ with-imlib-prefix=/usr/local/imlib
In the FreeType directory, run this:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/freetypeIn each directory, run make, change to the root user again and run make install. Edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and append these two lines:
/usr/local/fnlib/lib /usr/local/freetype/libFinally, rerun ldconfig and exit from the root user.
Normally, this would be all that was necessary for other programs which use auto-conf (the tool which creates the configure scripts) to find your newly installed packages. But E is missing a minor bit in its configure scripts, so we have one extra step to do. We need to make symbolic links for the files in the fnlib and freetype directories into their respective directories under /usr/local. It's not hard, so don't let this technical explanation scare you. Just type the script in Listing 1 into a file called /tmp/fixit.sh, then type:
sh /tmp/fixit.sh
That should do it. Seems like a lot of work, and it is, but this is what you have to live with when working with very young software. Linux may be in its infancy, but E is only a bit older than most zygotes.
After installing the libraries upon which E is dependent, we're ready to build and install E itself. This one follows the same basic steps as the others—run configure, run make, run make install. Except this time, you don't need to update the ld.so.conf file.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/enlightenment\ with-imlib-prefix=/usr/local/imblib
Change to the root user and type make install, then exit from the root user.
When you run the configure script, you will get a notice about Esound not being found. That's fine—you don't need it to work with E. As far as I'm concerned, sound on a computer does one of two things: makes noises when you type, or the clock changes and plays MP3s on your CD. Playing music shouldn't be the job of the window manager, so the latter option isn't important. As for making sounds when you type, well, any window manager that does that should be placed on a floppy disk and nailed to the stake where its author is tied just before they light the fire at his feet. But I digress.
The process for building E is just like building the libraries, so the installation should go smoothly. Chances are, the only real problems you'll hit might be if the libraries weren't installed correctly. If that's the case, reread this section and try again. After the build and installation are complete, you may want to add the Enlightenment/bin directory to your path:
export \ PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/enlightenment/enlightenment/bin
or link the binaries to /usr/local/bin:
ln -s \ /usr/local/enlightenment/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment\ /usr/local/binNote that E's main program—the window manager—is a program called "enlightenment".
What looks like a typo is not—the path is correct in both of these commands. We told the build process to install all the enlightenment tools under /usr/local/enlightenment. When we ran make install, the E installation process created a number of directories under /usr/local/enlightenment. One of these was called enlightenment. The reasons for this are technical, but suffice it to say the Enlightenment developers had one installation scenario in mind and that differs from mine. It doesn't matter. It still works using my method, and later upgrades to E will be easier to handle without disturbing any other packages.
Michael J. Hammel (email@example.com) is a graphic artist wanna-be, a writer and a software developer. He wanders the planet aimlessly in search of adventure, quiet beaches and an escape from the computers that dominate his life.


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A mythological pattern of black and white checks gives this cap unique characteristics to transition you into the fall season. Using the finest wool fibres, this material is woven in the Piemonte region of northern Italy. At the back you will find our signature adjustable strap in woven nylon and stainless steel. The inside of the cap is lined with a luxurious viscose material, inspired by classic top hats.
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Cities around Midwest setting no-snow records
Records being broken from Nebraska to Wisconsin
LINCOLN, Neb. — Cities from Lincoln, NE to Milwaukee are setting records for the lack of snow.
Thursday in Lincoln is the 297th in a row without measurable snow. The former record was 295 snow-free days in 2004.
The National Weather Service says the 285 snowless days as of Wednesday in Omaha breaks the record 284 days that ended Dec. 30, 2006.
The Des Moines, Iowa, record of 277 days set in 1889 is being matched on Thursday.
Elsewhere in the Midwest, Chicago and Milwaukee have yet to have their first measurable snow of the season.
But good news may be ahead for winter wonderland fans: The service says snow is in the forecasts for Saturday night or Sunday in Nebraska and Iowa, the next day in Chicago.


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Calen Carr made a splash in his return to the Houston starting XI on Wednesday night, notching the first brace of his career to push the Dynamo past first-place Sporting Kansas City 2-1 at BBVA Compass Stadium.
In his first start since June 16, the right winger was the ultimate opportunist finding the right end of service from Will Bruin and Brad Davis, players who have served as goal scorers for the Dynamo in recent weeks.
The win pushes the Dynamo's unbeaten streak at BBVA Compass Stadium to nine (6-0-3) and is their second win in a row over one of the East's top two clubs. The loss was Sporting's first in the month of July.
Carr's big night started in the 25th minute when the winger broke the ice after a nimble run from Bruin capped a 23-pass sequence. The hulking striker took an Andre Hainault ball into the box with All-Star Aurélien Collin on his left shoulder, passed up on an overlapping run by Mac Kandji and slotted a pass to Carr who had little trouble slotting home his first MLS goal of the season.
The slight winger turned up big again in the 79th minute as the Dynamo were pushing for a late winner, thighing a Davis low cross in goal. After taking three touches and setting Davis up out wide, Carr made a frantic run in the box, colliding with the left-midfielder's ball and watched it trickle by Nielsen after Matt Besler deflected.
After the first goal, Houston continued to control the flow of the match until the 41st minute. After taking a Peterson Joseph ball down the right, Kei Kamara hit a curling ball into Teal Bunbury, who was fouled from behind by Hainault, prompting referee Mark Kadlecik to point to the spot.
Kamara took his spot kick and knocked home a right-footed shot past Houston goalkeeper Tally Hall, making him one of four players to tally at least seven goals in each of the last three seasons and stopping Houston's shutout streak at 356 minutes.
If the goals were not enough, Carr's goal came in a second half where the Dynamo played with a man advantage due to a foul the winger drew in the waning minutes of the first half giving them a man advantage for the second straight week. SKC's Joseph was red-carded for a sweeping, two-footed tackle from behind to Carr, who is just coming back from a hamstring injury, earning the ire of Kadlecik.
Despite having the man advantage for a half, the Dynamo found it tough to break down a compact and well-organized Sporting defense to begin the second 45 minutes, prompting head coach Dominic Kinnear to introduce Brian Ching in the 61st minute to go to a 4-4-2 and push for a goal by pumping service into the box.
OPTA Chalkboard: Up a man, Dynamo still made to work
Led by a standout performance from Collin, Sporting were able to lock the space in front of Nielsen and not let Houston have many looks on frame, unable to get one clear look on goal until Carr's second did away with any chance of SKC sharing the spoils.
Houston improves to 8-5-7 and draws even with the Chicago Fire for fourth in the East with 31 points. They'll host Montreal on Saturday. SKC falls to 11-6-3 and will return home to Livestrong Sporting Park with a one-point lead over the New York Red Bulls in the East as they face the New England Revolution, also Saturday.
Houston Dynamo (8-5-7) vs. Sporting Kansas City (11-6-3)
July 18, 2012 BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, Texas
Attendance: 19,761
Scoring Summary:
HOU: Calen Carr 1 (Will Bruin 2, Andre Hainault 3) 25
SKC: Kei Kamara 7 (penalty) 42
HOU: Calen Carr 2 (Brad Davis 6) 79
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe; Boniek Garcia, Warren Creavalle (Luiz Camargo 68), Brad Davis; Will Bruin (Brian Ownby 78), Macoumba Kandji (Brian Ching 60)
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Nathan Sturgis, Je-Vaughn Watson, Alex Dixon
Sporting Kansas City: Jimmy Nielsen, Michael Harrington, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Seth Sinovic (Chance Myers 79); Peterson Joseph, Jacob Peterson, Paulo Nagamura, Kei Kamara, Teal Bunbury (C.J. Sapong 45), Jacob Peterson (Bobby Convey 82)
Subs not used: Eric Kronberg, Neven Markovic, Julio Cesar, Soony Saad
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Macoumba Kandji (caution) 8
SKC: Peterson Joseph (ejection) 45+2
Referee: Mark Kadlecik
Referee's Assistants: Greg Barkey, Brian Dunn
4th Official: Jasen Anno


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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has just been released and is available for download at the official website. We have been quick in covering the release and are probably the first to cover this release. As we have already told you, there are two options to get Ubuntu. One is through the ISO download and other through the Shipit CD ordering service. Read the release coverage here.
If you have any confusion as to which distro you should opt for, here is some quick help. Ubuntu is available in three editions.
Ubuntu Desktop Edition
This one is for regular PC users and simple everyday computing. It has all the basic applications for common tasks and has got the looks and feel everyone around is talking of. Basically, this version is for regular people with home PCs and for Ubuntu beginners. You can use it full fledged as your primary OS. Download page goes here.
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What's the Occupy Wall Street movement–an ongoing, multi-city protest against corporate greed, cronyism and inequity–got to do with gender politics, you ask? I say: everything.
The movement's rallying cry is this: We are the 99%. As in, 1% of the population holds the bulk of the wealth and the power in this country, leaving 99% of us struggling to find enough of either to survive.
How did that happen? A case can be made that this inequity is a result of a totally lopsided definition of power, and a completely unbalanced way in which it is valued and exerted in the world. In a world where, for centuries, men have held the bulk of the power and built the very structures of this society unchecked, it's not difficult to see how we've arrived at this point: what we're seeing is the result of an overvaluation of the masculine strengths–machismo run a-freaking-mok.
As Dr. Judy Rosener told us, there are significant–and proven–differences in the ways men and women operate when they find themselves in a position of power. (Yes, we know, we're not supposed to say that out loud! After all, if we're different, one must be better, and one must be…worse, right?) Chief among them:
Women view power as a means to an end to do something; men view power as an end unto itself. Women negotiate in a win-win manner; men negotiate in a win-lose manner.
In fact, the very definition of what it means to have power is a paradigm that's now, I'd argue, ripe for a serious shift; one that integrates more of the Feminine aspect into the way that power is wielded in the world. When the word power is understood to mean "Power Over," all but the most powerful are left to find an unempowered place within the system. Whereas another idea–"Power With"–might emphasize collaboration and the empowerment of others, a system that can foster a real sense of ownership and caring.
We dug deeply into this subject in our book, and the more we learned, the more we became convinced. There's science to back up gender differences in behavior–and there's statistics to show what happens in corporations where women are included in the highest ranks, the benefits that are reflected in the bottom line.
For example, did you know that, according to Catalyst, companies with significant numbers of women in management have a much higher return on investment? Or that when work teams are equally split between men and women, they are more productive?
Additionally, women are far more willing to go out on a limb and act as the conscience of their organizations. Yes, it's long been believed that men are the natural born risk-takers, but according to Dr. Rosener, it depends what kind of risk we're talking about. The kind of risk that one takes with the encouragement of an audience (think Deal or No Deal… or shortsighted shareholders) is the kind at which men tend to excel. The other, which Rosener calls "moral risk," is the kind that one takes in spite of the audience's disapproval. And this is the kind at which women excel.
The thing is, historically, women haven't had much power or position in corporate America. Only a generation ago were want-ads segregated by gender. So it's no surprise that, as Elizabeth Lesser, author and founder of the Omega Institute, told us:
The feminine has been left out of what we consider to be the most important way of exerting power in the world [and] it's not thriving in many women, and it's not thriving in men.
Nor is it thriving in the structures and institutions built by men.
Of course in the opening salvos of women's migration into the workforce our strategy was to blend in: We were afraid (and rightly so) that if we came at an issue differently, we'd be seen as weak–or worse, tossed out of the boardroom completely. There was a time for blending in. But we've shown we can play their game. The time has come to change the rules.


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Delta ends service to Columbia, Mo. | Business
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Delta Air Lines will stop providing service to Columbia Regional Airport in February.
Columbia city officials said Delta rejected a $3 million revenue guarantee over two years to continue providing routes to Atlanta and Memphis. The city's offer included a landing fee waiver for two daily flights to Atlanta starting in 2014.
Mayor Bob McDavid said Delta told Columbia officials it lost $900,000 last year providing service to the city. Delta officials were reportedly upset the city offered a $3 million revenue guarantee to American Airlines.
Delta spokesman Anthony Black said the city should have communicated better with Delta before making the deal with American.